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    Hi guys,
    found a mountain near my home all made of this stone, it's purple slate it's possible to fill a truck per day with it,and it's work very well for SR or knives.





    live a few kilometers from Italy.
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    I pick rocks and shape hones from around where I live too. It is a lot of fun.
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    Looks nice. Where are you located in France?
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    Thats a nice big chunk of rock. I should see if slate is something found around my area.

    Now that i think about it. Being at one of the highest areas in the USA, there probably is no slate. Who knows.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brontosaurus View Post
    Looks nice. Where are you located in France?

    Menton in the ###**** of France! and you are welcommer for a stone picking up party ! come with your truck!
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    Looks like the Welsh Slate 'Yellow Lake' stone sold by a well known seller on eBay, I think he goes by AJ? I sometimes you the Welsh Slate 'Dragon's Tongue' stone then the Yellow Lake instead of the Coticule with great results. Fine finishing stone, easy slurry, I use mine a lot.

    If you may have the resources to cut and lap those stones you could sell them, you may have a gold mine there..................
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    Nice find. I use local slates found in Vermont, New York and New Hampshire. They make great finishers and touch up stones
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    Quote Originally Posted by DoughBoy68 View Post
    Looks like the Welsh Slate 'Yellow Lake' stone sold by a well known seller on eBay, I think he goes by AJ? I sometimes you the Welsh Slate 'Dragon's Tongue' stone then the Yellow Lake instead of the Coticule with great results. Fine finishing stone, easy slurry, I use mine a lot.

    If you may have the resources to cut and lap those stones you could sell them, you may have a gold mine there..................
    Yes,but i m too lazy!
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    Quote Originally Posted by paloma View Post
    Menton in the ###**** of France! and you are welcommer for a stone picking up party ! come with your truck!
    Thanks. With a name like that, I would think it was more the forehead of France! But from the Wikipedia picture, it doesn't look like such a bad place (apart from maybe tourist season). Reason I asked is because I spend a lot of time in the Vosges mountains, where my wife is from. There I've found purple slate that holds promise, but which is ultimately too brittle.

    Bonne continuation en tout cas...

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    Faudrait que je finisse le surfaçage de la mienne ...

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